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Raising Socially Conscious Children
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Dagny Taggart Apr 12.
"We have too many women."
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- About Me:
- Occupation/Potential Occupation: Housewife, stay at home mom, perpetual student
Educational Status: On parental leave from university (not official, but wouldn't it be nice if it were?)
Notable Hobbies:
* I'm a sucker for time travel stories
* Miniature gaming
* Video gaming
* Learning about child development and watching my son grow
* Ravenous devourer of books, especially if they might help me find some peace
* Debunking body image myths for moms
Favorite color: To wear, black; to see, red
Favorite animal: I have two pets: a bearded dragon named Rufus and a ball python named Ivy.
Favorite food: Italian, spicy Thai
- Do you consider yourself a Feminist?
- Yes, though I'm not the end-all and be-all of feminism. I'm still learning!
- Are you...
- a housewife, a stay at home mom, a work at home mom
- Relationship Status:
- In a Committed Relationship, Married
- Website:
- http://www.feministhousewives.com
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So...I started a new medicine in February. It started off slowly, pushing away the terrors, the over-reaction to random sounds, shadows on the walls. Then the nightmares stopped. I realized about six weeks ago I didn't want to hide under the blankets anymore, didn't want to sleep all day. All nice changes, but nothing that any other medicine hadn't done for me.
About a month ago, I started really wanting to do things again. Not just school or sex, but simple things, like enjoying a warm shower… Continue
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5 roses a day...
In what is surely an interesting spin on the concept of a dowry, an Iranian court has order a man to 'pay' his wife the 124,000 roses he promised on their betrothal. Apparently, the woman in question decided to go to court after ten years of manage to "punish her very stingy husband."
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 at 9:26pm —
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Margaret is Beautiful!
While working on a more substantial article for the mom body image page, I ran across a great article by Margaret Cho. Though we don't know each other, it seems that we have made our journey towards confidence in our respective physical appearances together.
- Erin C.
I went on a radio show recently and the DJ asked me, “What if you woke up tomorrow and you were beautiful?”
What do you mean, “What if?”
He continued, “What if y… Continue
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i was craft searching when i found Feminist Housewives! so, all in one morning my life had changed! i'm so excited to be a part of this community. Thank you.
Ya...I meant the 3 years till he goes to school ( I doubt we would homeschool...although it is not out of the picture).
I appreciate the site..and the welcome. See you around.
I have four kids at home and look forward to getting to know you all better!
Thanks for the welcoming comment.
Regarding your questions about education:
I was a Teach For America corps member for two years. Through them I taught in the Mississippi Delta in one of the poorest counties in the country. I spent most of that time believing that --quality teachers, better administrators, more time, community involvement, quality instruction, parental involvement, early literacy experiences, more money (among other things)--would help close the achievement gap and improve education in this country.
Since then I have taught in an urban school district as well, and have become increasingly disillusioned with our current system of education, the bureaucracy, the bullsh**, the de-humanization, domestication...
I have some experience with Montessori education and a little knowledge about experiential education, and my vision would include those things.
Following the child, using the student's experiences and intuition to teach, helping students find their place in the universe, their voice, their good work--is the next step (in my opinion)
I do not think that can be done in the current system. The best education is bought in this country (unfortunately). Montessori (for example) started out as education for the poorest, under-served children. That was her mission.
Now it is mainly for the middle class and elite. There are some public Montessori programs, but none (that I have seen) remain true to the mission.
So I don't have a perfect, easy answer about education. It is complicated (as all things are). I am interested in same sex education (especially for teen girls), adolescent literacy, powerful literacy (check out the book "Literacy With Attitude"), Montessori and experiential education.
I hope that someday all of these things will come together for me, and I will realize what my "good work" will be. Right now I am still searching, hoping I am on the right path.
Yes that's me with my last - five years ago just this past Friday! Going to post some things on birthing "green". Excited to join feminist housewives - I have a lot of ideas brewing (working on a book) and I would love to get some insight/ideas from women who view caring for their children as a form of feminsim/activism. I look forward to the conversations!
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